Guo Quan, a prominent political dissident in Jiangsu province, was allowed to meet with his attorney at the Nanjing No. 2 Detention Center on Monday, according to an October 13 news release from rights.com, citing attorney Shi Weijiang.
Guo Quan was red-faced, wearing a short-sleeved shirt, and in good health, according to attorney Shi Weijiang. The charges against Guo Quan are mainly based on WeChat’s “Guo Quan Quotations,” which Guo Quan claims he is not afraid of going to jail.
On December 6, 2007, Guo Quan was arrested for publishing an open letter calling for constitutional reform in China, announcing the formation of the “New People’s Party of China,” and advocating a multi-party system and the nationalization of the military, among other things. The Party Committee of Nanjing Normal University revoked his associate professorship for violating the constitution and teachers’ law.
In May 2008, Guo Quan was detained for 10 days for writing an article criticizing the authorities’ handling of the Sichuan earthquake.
On November 13, 2008, Guo Quan was criminally detained by the Nanjing police for posting more than 300 articles online entitled “Herald of Democracy,” about the formation of the New People’s Party (NPP) and the Blue Movement Initiative, a non-cooperative approach to civic action.
On October 16, 2009, Guo Quan was sentenced by the Suqian Intermediate Court in Jiangsu Province to 10 years’ imprisonment and 3 years’ deprivation of political rights for the crime of “subversion of state power.
On January 31, Guo Quan was detained again for his concern for the epidemic in Wuhan, Hubei province, and for speaking out for the people in the affected areas.
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